Here’s the playlist for my radio show this week: Amilie Lens – Our Frequency Snooper – Recess Water From Your Eyes – Playing Classics Icona Pop – Dance to This Monobloc – City Boy Harsher – Jeans Til Tuesday –...

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" by Shania Twain Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Post one of your favorite country songs. I think this song is a classic. It's got a good hook and the classic "oh, you think you're all that" line. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist

Even now, when things on my latest list of the good things in life suddenly seem to connect together naturally, it is such a glorious feeling. Plus, there’s the added bonus of a sense of having joined the dots without any help. Perhaps, to counter this, one should sometimes question why it took so long to do so, but then life’s not perfect. Far from it sometimes. With this particular adventure the link turned out to be the Efficient Space label of Melbourne whose activities tied together a…

Members of the Grapes of Wrath group play music worthy of putting on a record. The SPHS students are (left to right) Brian Magnan, Bill Lichty, Ralph Sias, Danny Morrow and William Doheny., San Pedro News-Pilot, May 17, 1967. The Grapes of Wrath cut one 45, “For Every Year” / “Cause it Was Her”, both written by Ralph Sias. The group came from San Pedro, California, in the South Bay of Los Angeles. Members were: Brian Magnan – lead vocals Bill Lichty – drums Ralph Sias – guitar Danny Morrow –…

“Dub Souljah” is the first 12 on Sotofett’s new label, Resonance Of Dub. Those of us in Japan were lucky enough to pick up promos of the inaugural 7 last November, when the Norwegian DJ / producer was handing them out while on tour. Here, the sleeve bears the legend “Dub blew my mind the first time I heard it, and that explosion is still ringing in my ears”, and his passion, understanding and talent for the technique / genre really shows. The release consists of 3 songs, collaborations between…

Meant to be televised in 1969 but withheld for decades because the Stones were afraid of The Who – and for good reason, the latter’s version of “A Quick One” is the greatest performance in any rock doc I’ve seen lately. Staged inside a circus tent with acrobats and stuff in between music acts, passing through a wild Lennon/Ono act and culminating in a decently good Stones set. Of the bands I didn’t already know, Taj Mahal’s amped-up bar band > Jethro Tull’s flutey rock > Marianne Faithfull’s…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 26th May 1986 There are times when I’m writing about music, and metal, when I wonder just how I got to this point of writing about the fortieth anniversary of one of rock music’s most infamous songs and the album it came from, but this is a lesson of self discovery and of not pre-judging anything. Because despite the mega-hit nature of ‘The Final Countdown’ (number one song in 25 countries, including the UK), I had never listened to Europe at all other than…

The Contaminazioni Contemporanee, or Contemporary Contaminations, series emerged in Bergamo, Italy, as a multi-year festival devoted to ECM Records’ eclectic sound world. Its title treats contamination as a creative principle: one tradition entering another and subtly rearranging its inner architecture. Its scope embraces sacred music alongside Mediterranean traditions, with Eastern and Western vocabularies meeting throughout. It is also a rare New Series-dominant ECM sampler. Appropriately, it…

July 17 was Vince Guaraldi’s 98th birthday, and — since his first publicized gig was an April 1951 booking at San Francisco’s Cable Car Village, as a member of tenor saxman Chuck Travis’ quartet — this year marks the 75th anniversary of Vince’s professional career.That was two excellent excuses for the sensational all-Guaraldi set presented Sunday evening, July 19, by pianist Jim Martinez’s Quartet, accompanied by his son, James Martinez, on guitar; Kerry Kashiwagi, on bass; and Scott Gordon,…

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This is the soundtrack that turned me on to Panarama, who I played yesterday. This soundtrack was composed by Hermann Weindorf, one of the two members of Panarama, and it's a mix of songs by the band itself and other 80s pop in a very similar vein. I've never seen the movie, but if you asked me what an 80s ski movie soundtrack should sound like it would absolutely be something like this. Unfortunately the full soundtrack isn't available online anywhere, but at least a few of the highlights are…

Toronto’s own shoegaze festival Loveless Fest dials up this weekend and while the lineup impresses with a balance of higher profile international (read: American) acts to spice up the locals from the GTA and southern Ontario, there’s some domestic acts from a little further afield who bring an extra element of discovery to the schedule. […] The post Shallow – “Blow It All Away” appeared first on Space Echo.

Women Of Music volume 13 Note : previously issued at the Groovy Grooves blog, now with a new coverClaudine Clark - Walkin' Through a Cemetery.mp3 Dorothy Donegan, - Kilroy Was Here.mp3 Dot Hester- My Boyfriend's Back.mp3 Elizabeth Montgomery (as Serena) - I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind.mp3 Emmylou Harris - c'est la Vie, you never can tell, .mp3 Frances Day (aka Gale Warning) - Heartbreak Hotel.mp3 Jenny Aguirre - Satellite.mp3 LaVern Baker - Voodoo Voodoo.mp3 Linda Leigh - The Scent.mp3 Patti…

2026/07/20 Sunday Tonight I made spinach and ricotta panqueca. I posted panqueca before, it should not be confused with American pancakes, these are thin rolled crêpes. Sala Espacial playing Imediato Contato (2016) I had already beaten the eggs when I decided to take a picture... for this recipe I used 4 eggs, 500ml of milk, 2 tablespoons of canola oil, 50g of melted butter, 300g of flour - and of course, salt, to taste. I let it rest for about 4h. Roberta Sá playing Lua (2011) I bought frozen…

Bulayo - Guitar Songs From Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and DR CongoDuring a very brief visit to Portland, OR, a few weeks back, I finally made it to Mississippi Records. As expected, it was a delight — I could’ve spent several hours just browsing the Sun Ra section. One thing I grabbed was Mississippi’s recent Bulayo compilation, and I’ve been spinning it daily since then. These field recordings made by John Low in 1979 and 1980 throughout Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, and Zambia give us an…

If you were in London and fancied a joyful escape from the men’s football world cup final, chances are you hot-footed it down to the New Wimbledon Theatre to experience Strictly Come Dancing star Nikita Kuzmin’s new touring show, Supernova. Presented by long-running dance hit Burn the Floor, it sees Kuzmin in collaboration with choreographer Jason Gilkison, exploding onto the stage with the energy, charisma and enthusiasm Strictly viewers have come to expect. Along with his cast of seven fellow…

Good morning! This past Friday I went to a political rally lightly disguised as a stop on a book tour. It was a Q&A with Ben Wikler and Pete Buttigieg, and a couple of other local/state politicians and activists. I was really there to see “Mayor Pete” (I’m an unrepentant infrastructure geek), but if I’m honest, it was far more engaging and entertaining than I thought it might’ve been. I’m terminally online and far too plugged into the WI political landscape for my own good. It’s easy to get…

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This week’s theme: Vocal duets. Featured artists include Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Jordan, Rosemary Clooney, Billy Eckstine, Sarah VaughanThe post Podcast: Vocal Duets first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

Our kids like listening to music on their tablets, and we decided it's worth it to pay some money so they can make playlists and don't need to listen to ads. A family account makes sense if you're more than one person, and we ended up with Amazon somewhat randomly. I've been poking around: the personalization features are pretty terrible, and they have a major artist conflation problem. When you first show up it asks you to pick some artists to seed your experience with. I put in the first few…

Ultima RequiesOut 26th June on ATMF The third album from this Italian outfit relives the streaming lamentations of the Blazebirth Hall scene, but populates this infamously barren Russian style with stark features by which to navigate. Most obviously via rhythmic variation and clearly marked out phrasing, over and above the addition of rich keyboard decoration which often pivots to organ, lending the music a grandiose gothic flair alongside the fragility of acoustic guitars. In one sense then,…

For some reason, when I put on music in the summer, I don’t want something that is too demanding, but I do want something that is good. This often draws me to soul jazz playlist, particularly the mid- to late-1960s offerings of Blue Note (and when I feel a bit more polished, CTI). Yesterday, for example, I enjoyed Dr. Lonnie Smith’s 1969 album, which has a fantastic cover and features Smith (on organ, of course), Lee Morgan, Julian Priester, guitarist Melvin Sparks (who I think brings a…

I spent most of the weekend in Derbyshire with my cousin, revisiting Buxton – the riverside gardens really are very fine – and, yesterday, taking a walk in and around Bradford Dale. As we wandered amid an astonishing abundance of butterflies – painted ladies, peacocks, red admirals, commas, gatekeepers, meadow browns, ringlets, blues and whites (sadly only one tortoiseshell) – it occurred to me that I haven't really said anything about this wonderful butterfly season. The profusion of painted…

Trust me #120Lay This Burden Down by Mary LoveDiscogs can provide a good indication of the value soul fans place on a song and record. 215 people have a 7-inch of Mary Love's Lay This Burden Down, but 1,498 want a copy. For those willing to sell, they can get up to £300 from collectors and fans willing to go that high. Fear not, the good folk at Kent Records have included the song on a couple of their excellent compilations - which is where I discovered the song.I rediscovered it recently while…

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In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve gathered up new albums from Hail Maria and Crash Outfit, a new EP from Red Star Sky, and a reissue of Fig Dish‘s second album. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Fig Dish – When Shove Goes Back to Push (Vinyl Release) Release date: June 26thRecord label: Forge…

I don't remember the exact day I first heard Tori Amos. Sometime in 1992, I think. It's hard to explain the feeling of listening to her for the first time. It was the early '90s, and grunge and other loud music were taking over the musical landscape (much to my pleasure) but her music was completely different. For most of her songs, it was just her voice and a piano, and yet it had the same intensity and triggered the same feelings as all the other bands I started listening to more and more,…

This unsurprisingly has turned out to be a sell-out EP. i.e. wherever the 12 was stocked, it disappeared in a blink. Munich-based dub obsessive, Captain Yossarian, having previously reworked the Bob Marley songbook, here, focussed his mixing desk manipulations on 4 Fela Kuti classics. The cuts feature a total of 10 players, and fellow afrobeat enthusiasts, including Jimi Tenor. Together, authentically recreating Fela’s fidgeting, phrenetic, politically-charged funk. In super tight synergy,…

This 1983 promotional album surveys the work of one of ECM’s most enduring and quietly formative artists: Ralph Towner. Having by this point recorded for the label for nearly a decade, his presence had already defined an aesthetic in which every note appeared to have crossed a considerable interior distance before reaching the ear. This rare vinyl offers a compressed map of an imagination folding vast musical territories into the small, resonant body of a guitar. Side One is devoted to Blue Sun…

Today’s Music Monday is an etymological road trip from Paul Simon’s 1983 album Hearts and Bones. The album was a commercial failure relative to his other works, but it happens to be one of my favourites. This cheeky song is mixed in with some of his most beautiful tunes. Clara and I were lucky to find an original LP pressing at a charity shop this year. Graceland is one of my favourite albums of all time, but I find myself playing Hearts and Bones and his earlier One Trick Pony album far more…